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Glenmorangie Lecture takes place this week

Culture
This year’s Glenmorangie Lecture will be given by the internationally renowned jeweller and silversmith, Simone ten Hompel. Simone is the recipient of The Glenmorangie Commission...

A fun guide to Dundee exploring hidden treasures

Books | Reviews
Dundee: A Very Peculiar History is an illustrated pocket-sized guide to the hidden treasures of Dundee, Scotland’s fourth largest city. It takes a light-hearted approach...
Pictured with Ellie Marshall (aged eight, from Wigtown Primary School with Dumfries and Galloway major events champion Adam Wilson (Photo: Colin Hattersley) Photography cphattersley@gmail.com - 07974 957 388.

Wigtown Book Festival 2019 another big success

Books | Scotland
It’s been another superb year for the Wigtown Book Festival. Preliminary figures suggest that audience numbers matched or even bettered the 29,000 achieved for the...

Celebrating culture and embracing heritage

Culture | Film & TV | Scotland
A new documentary is to be shown today, celebrating Scotland's diversity. Film-maker Stewart Kyasimire made this heart-felt documentary for his eight-year-old daughter Yasmin as a...
Architectural plans for St Columba’s Church in Glasgow (Photo: Ross Parker / SNS Group)

Celebrating Glasgow’s Gaelic culture ahead of the Mod

Culture
To celebrate the return of the Mod,  a new display entitled Glasgow Gaels, which charts some of the history of the Gaelic community in the...

Saving the wildcats – Scotland’s Highland tiger

Books | Reviews | Scotland
For someone who initially had no particular interest in wildcats, I finished this book feeling massively concerned for their welfare and vulnerability.  Marianne Taylor delves...
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